How to install Kellet on Windows
About five minutes, most of which is waiting for a download. Kellet blocks nothing until this is done, so it is the one step worth doing first.
Download the installer from your account, run it and approve the administrator prompt, then approve the PC in the browser page it opens, signed in to your Kellet account. Restart when setup asks, and the PC enforces whatever rules you have set.
How to do it
Download the installer from your account
Sign in at kellet.app, open Devices and choose Enroll a device. The download is a standard Windows installer. Downloading it from your own account rather than a link someone sent you is worth doing on principle: this is software that will hold onto your machine.
Run it and approve the administrator prompt
Windows will ask for administrator rights once. Kellet needs them to install the service that does the blocking, because anything running as an ordinary program can be closed by an ordinary program. This is the same prompt any antivirus or VPN shows on install.
Approve the PC in your browser
Setup opens Kellet in your browser on an Approve a device page. Sign in with your Kellet account if you are asked, check the device name it shows, and choose Approve and link. Nothing is blocked until you do. If no browser opens, setup shows a short code instead: enter it at kellet.app/link-device from any device.
Check the device appears in your account
Open Devices in your account on any browser. The PC should be listed and reporting within a few seconds. If it is not there, the approval did not complete rather than the install failing.
Restart when setup asks you to
Setup finishes by asking you to restart. Until you do, websites may show a security warning, because your browsers have not picked up the filter yet.
If Windows blocks the installer
SmartScreen sometimes warns about installers it has not seen many times before. If you get "Windows protected your PC", choose More info and then Run anyway, having checked that the file came from your own account rather than a link.
If your work laptop is managed by an IT department, the install may be refused outright. That is the machine doing its job, and there is no way round it that is not also a way round every other rule on that machine.
What it can and cannot see
- It sees what it blocks.Sites and apps that hit one of your rules, and enough of the address to tell you what happened.
- It does not read your files unless you ask it to.Detection runs on the device, on what is drawn on screen. Scanning saved images and videos is a separate switch that is off unless you turn it on. What gets recorded is the blocked event and your web history, and those land in your own account where nobody reads them but you and anyone you have invited.
- Your partner sees what you see.Your flagged activity, web history and app usage. They change your settings only if you have allowed it, no partner can end a cool-down early, and a partner ends a device lock only when you ask them to.
Removing it later
Uninstalling is deliberately not instant. You ask from your account, the cool-down you chose runs, and only then does the uninstaller work. That delay is the entire product; a blocker you can remove in ten seconds is a bookmark.
You are always able to remove it. It just takes as long as you decided it should take, back when you were thinking clearly.
Common questions
Do I need administrator rights?
Will it slow my PC down?
Can I install it on more than one PC?
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